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22 Workers shared the thing that made them finally stop caring about "going above and beyond" at work—It is often seen as an important trait, but when should you stop?

Brad Dickson

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New manager demands employee dress professionally or “go home” during an office Casual Friday—employee complies, goes home, still gets a full day's pay—HR sides with employee, and the whole team is mad at the manager

Brad Dickson

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28-year-old worker learns coworker, with whom she privately vented frustrations, secretly recorded their conversations for over a year—HR blindsides her, firing her and promoting him—When is private venting ok and when is it a workplace issue?

Brad Dickson

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Employee starts booking approved leave for weekends 2 weeks in advance, exactly as HR policy requires, forcing management to finally give notice before scheduling Saturday shifts

Etai Eshet

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Employer Cuts Overachieving Employee’s Pay in Half When They Switch Them From Flat Rate to Hourly Pay— I Work Fast and Efficient and Can Get Most Jobs Finished in Half to 3/4 of the Allotted Time

Brad Dickson

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Supermarket Manager Calls 20-Year-Old Employee Demanding He Show Up for His Shift, Except He Never Worked There Having Declined an Earlier Job Offer There After a Chaotic Interview—I Don’t Think I Want That Minimum Wage Paycheck

Brad Dickson

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Legal assistant refuses to apologize for pushing back when a coworker demands she drop a client mid-call and then skipping an unpaid Saturday event

Etai Eshet

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Employee handles his resignation notice to his boss, but he said he needed a week to "let him know his thoughts." After a while, they ended up meeting, and the boss said: '[he] decided he was still upset and disappointed, but he had my replacement ready '

María Cetra

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CEO says employee's prototypes are bad, lays her off and then steals her ideas: 'I should have just quit'

Brad Dickson

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Restaurant Manager Demands 26-Year-Old Employee Get a Doctor’s Note When They Try to Call Out for 1 Day, Doctor Writes Him off for 4 Instead—"Well, you need a doctor's note or it's an unexcused absence"

Brad Dickson

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‘It’s the same move every time’: Peer Executive Assistant keeps making up rules she has no authority over, then blames the chaos she caused on the colleague she's undermining

Etai Eshet

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"Big profits, no raises, but hey here's some stale pizza and a generic thank you email": Company posts record profits, denies raises and throws a mandatory pizza party instead

Etai Eshet

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Employee's new boss wants to swap his earned department head role with a coworker's, calling it a "fair chance" that feels a lot like a demotion

Etai Eshet

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Fortune 500 company fires worker over a rigged survey metric that's nearly impossible to pass: ‘Apparently the world’s leading financial tech company couldn’t afford to keep me around anymore’

Etai Eshet

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'I've never worked there, lady': Harris Teeter manager, Christie, calls a job applicant months after she declined the job offer to yell at her for not showing up to a shift

Etai Eshet

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‘Started a new job today and the red flags are flying’: New hire spends day one with no equipment, a delayed iPad, and broken IT logins, then gets brushed off when she raises concerns

Etai Eshet

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